Yet an economy cannot get the most out of its resources if dishonesty, corruption, and favoritism are widespread.

Now, you probably share the widespread Western belief that the Lord Buddha is the most compassionate of the gods, much more so than Jehovah and Allah and the rest.

One of the most widespread features of contemporary thought is the almost universal disbelief in the reality of spirit.

The works that have survived are in treatise form and were not, for the most part, intended for widespread publication, as they are generally thought to be lecture aids for his students.

Some of the oldest and most widespread stories in the world are stories of adventure such as Homer's The Odyssey.

ASL is perhaps the most widespread of the world's sign languages, though BANZSL is also spoken around the world.

This technique is the most widespread method of computing amplitudes in quantum field theory today.

The largest species are red alder ( A. rubra ) on the west coast of North America, and black alder ( A. glutinosa ), native to most of Europe and widely introduced elsewhere, both reaching over 30 m. By contrast, the widespread Alnus viridis ( green alder ) is rarely more than a 5 m tall shrub.

* 2005 – A Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people, the one of the largest and most widespread power outages in history.

Agate is one of the most common materials used in the art of hardstone carving, and has been recovered at a number of ancient sites, indicating its widespread use in the ancient world ; for example, archaeological recovery at the Knossos site on Crete illustrates its role in Bronze Age Minoan culture.

After widespread adoption of the COX-2 inhibitors, it was discovered that most of the drugs in this class increased the risk of cardiovascular events by 40 % on average.

Among the main branches of contemporary analytical atomic spectrometry, the most widespread and universal are optical and mass spectrometry.

" He later goes on to claim that the anti-globalization movement has failed to attract widespread support from poor and working people from the Third World, and that its " strongest and most uncomprehending critics had always been the workers whose liberation from employment they were trying to secure.

In the Anglosphere, most notably in Anglo-America, autumn is also associated with the Halloween season ( which in turn was influenced by Samhain, a Celtic autumn festival ), and with it a widespread marketing campaign that promotes it, in the U. S. A.

The general picture seems to be that during most of the 17th century, a style of hip hop was of late Renaissance dance was widespread, but as time progressed, French ballroom dances such as the minuet were widely adopted at fashionable courts.

In the Romanian general election elections of 1946, the Romanian Communist Party ( PCR ) employed widespread intimidation tactics and electoral fraud to obtain 80 percent of the vote and, thereafter, eliminated the role of the centrist parties and forced mergers, the result of which was that, by 1948, most non-Communist politicians were either executed, in exile or in prison.

The following technologies are either obsolete, or limited to special applications though most were, at one time, in widespread use.

The Gregorian calendar, and the year-numbering system associated with it, is the calendar system with most widespread use in the world today.

The most widespread employment of heavy cavalry at this time was found in the forces of the Parthians and their Iranian Sassanid successors.

The 1980s featured some of the most prominent storylines in the programme's history, such as Deirdre Barlow's affair with Mike Baldwin in 1983, the first soap storyline to receive widespread media attention.

The most widespread queueing model used is the Erlang C Formula.

Cowboy Bebop received widespread critical acclaim and became a commercial success both in Japanese and international markets, most notably in the United States.

From a local disease, cholera became one of the most widespread and deadly diseases of the 19th century, killing an estimated tens of millions of people.

Some effects of alcohol intoxication are central to alcohol's desirability as a beverage and its history as the world's most widespread recreational drug.

The most widespread subgenre of the detective novel became the whodunit ( or whodunnit, short for " who done it?

`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.

But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.

The most effective political inventions seem to make maximum use of natural harbors and are aware that restraining breakwaters can play only a minor part in the whole scheme.

`` The argument that is cutting most ice is that Hearst is the only candidate who is fighting the trusts fearlessly and who would use all the powers of government to disrupt them if he were elected.

Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.

Probably the most important of all matters for review are the broad administrative policies governing the purchase, assignment, use, and management of state vehicles.

April 15 is usually the final date for filing income tax returns for most people because they use the calendar year ending on December 31.

`` The reason you are in the ring today is to show your ability to present to any judge the most attractive picture of your dog that the skillful use of your aids can produce.

Sometimes, you have a choice of exposure for sites where the topography or trees of the area will provide afternoon shade, morning sun, or whatever may be most desirable for the use intended.

The drug's chemical name is listed, since most states require feed processors to use this name instead of the trade name on the feed tag.

Muscle weakness is now recognized as an uncommon though serious complication of steroid therapy, with most of the synthetic adrenal corticosteroids in clinical use.

Here, perhaps, Fromm is vulnerable, for he does not always use the best and most recent evidence available, and he sometimes selects and interprets the evidence in rather special ways.

The most unusual feature of Boris, however, is the use of the greatest character of all, the chorus.

Slab stock is still one of the most important forms of urethane end-product in use today.

One of the most desirable solutions is achieved by the use of a non-linear amplifier for Af.

Pond water can be filtered for human use, but most part-time farmers would not want to go to so much trouble.

I am told the time will soon come when women will find it necessary to do most of their own work, and even now it is important to have conveniences for the use of servants.

Where the Roman model ( like most modern Japanese ) has 4 plus 1 bead per decimal place, the standard suanpan has 5 plus 2, allowing use with a hexadecimal numeral system.

As a simple, cheap and reliable device, the Russian abacus was in use in all shops and markets throughout the former Soviet Union, and the usage of it was taught in most schools until the 1990s.

" For most Swahili speakers, the use of satire in writing is unfamiliar.

There are dozens of alphabets in use today, the most common being the Latin alphabet ( which was derived from the Greek ).

Cyrillic is one of the most widely used modern alphabetic scripts, and is notable for its use in Slavic languages and also for other languages within the former Soviet Union.

Arsenic is a common n-type dopant in semiconductor electronic devices, and the optoelectronic compound gallium arsenide is the most common semiconductor in use after doped silicon.

Angst, in contemporary connotative use, most often describes the intense frustration and other emotions of teenagers and the mood of the music and art with which they identify in accordance with adult stereotype.

Sometimes slightly stronger theories such as Morse-Kelley set theory or set theory with a strongly inaccessible cardinal allowing the use of a Grothendieck universe are used, but in fact most mathematicians can actually prove all they need in systems weaker than ZFC, such as second-order arithmetic.